Fidel Castro has had at least three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, and the Cuban leader faces "a very grave prognosis," a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday.
There are 60 days from the start of the second semester to the start of spring break. Several events mark those 60 days in between: the bulk of second semester, the height of basketball season and, as regular visitors of the Student Recreational Sports Center know, the peak of the fitness center's popularity.
The Iowa Hawkeyes just couldn't stop D.J. White. In 35 minutes of play, IU's big man racked up a career-high 23 points and 12 boards during IU's 71-64 victory Tuesday night against Iowa.
In a cheerfully decorated corner of the Monroe County Public Library, a dozen young children crowded around IU graduate students Patrick Schoettmer and Aymen Elsheikh as they introduced the first two letters of the Arabic alphabet, alef and ba. "'Alef' is for 'arnab' ('rabbit')!" Schoettmer said as the children hopped around the room and gave each other bunny ears.
Though Jacobs School of Music student Georgina Joshi was killed in a plane crash last April, her parents hope her memory will live on through a donation to the music school. Louise Addicot and Yatish Joshi of South Bend made a special trip to Hamburg, Germany, in December to select a Steinway concert grand piano in memory of Georgina.
BOSTON -- Patriots safety Rodney Harrison remained coy about a possible return for Sunday's AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts after missing New England's first two playoff games with a knee injury.
It's that time of year again. The time when thousands of students go head-to-head on the basketball court in the Assembly Hall spotlight to have their biggest fans cheer them on. It's not quite March Madness, and the players aren't Kelvin Sampson's crew, but much of the excitement is still there and, for some, there's still a lot on the line. It's intramural basketball season.
Be honest. You're out there somewhere. You're the one who didn't like IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan's decision to hire Kelvin Sampson back in March.
Before Jan. 2, IU fans presumably had little idea how well their Hoosiers -- a team with a new coach, two junior college transfers, a previously injured star and a menagerie of freshmen -- would perform in the Big Ten. Since their 74-67 loss to Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, the Hoosiers (13-4, 4-1 Big Ten) have answered that question with four straight convincing wins -- the latest coming against Iowa, 71-64, Tuesday night.
There are two things I know about the IU campus: I know that it rains every Tuesday and Thursday, and I know that girls here love wearing their rain boots.
The Buskirk-Chumley Theater will premiere its monthly film series this Thursday, featuring the talents and innovations of people who have advanced filmmaking.
Eleven-year-olds faced off with University of Michigan students over the merits of affirmative action as hundreds gathered to protest the passage of Proposal 2 Monday.
Hoosier fans can now "ride with pride" with IU's new 2007 license plate and support the IU Alumni Association at the same time.
New Yorkers who were close to the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have more vivid memories than those in other parts of the city on that day, a recent study by New York University researchers found.
Chamber music devotees are no doubt looking forward to this weekend's Dubinsky Memorial Concert. The concert, given annually, is piano professor Luba Edlina-Dubinsky's memorial offering to her late husband, Rostislav Dubinsky, who served as violin professor and chamber-music coordinator in the Jacobs School of Music from 1980 until his death in 1997.
Junior Megan Geurts said it didn't happen to her, but if it did, she "would've gone insane."
When one thinks of President Bush's philosophy on the war in Iraq, undoubtedly his oft-repeated catchphrase "stay the course" comes to mind. "Stay the course" has resulted in 3,020 dead Americans, 655,000 dead Iraqi countrymen, Abu Ghraib pictures, the Haditha massacre and more body bags for fundamentalists to rally around. Has the Bush administration "freed" the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein only to turn them first into carpet-bomb targets, then throw them into the jaws of civil war? Bush's so - called "new" strategy -- sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq-- seems oddly like the old "stay the course" mantra. When the advice of this nation's top generals, the findings of the Iraq Study Group and overwhelming public opinion are all ignored in order to escalate a war, I can't help but be skeptical at best, and morbidly terrified of the consequences at worst.
Typically, musicians begin their careers at very young ages but rarely get to perform at a prestigious venue like Carnegie Hall in New York . IU alumnus Jonathan Ng is not your typical musician.
By Grace Low "Stand up, old people": a moment of spontaneous idiocy that will live on in infamy long after the choice seats return to the enthusiastic bottoms of students. It's obvious there are some major frustrations between the students and the alumni at basketball games. But being offensively ageist in a moment of sports ecstasy is not the way to handle such animosity. As the old adage goes, two wrongs do not make a right, so though the athletic department's decision to revoke students' access to the best seats was stupid, responding offensively does nothing but add fuel to the tensions. If you want the intimidation factor back in the hands of the "young'uns" then you must realize that those "old people" you're hassling are the people who control the choice to do so and will react to student chants accordingly. Perhaps letters and petitions or a concerted effort to get to games on time (an issue that apparently irks the alumni) could show that the student fans are serious about their love of the game. Love your team, but do it with respect.
Patrons of Nick's English Hut might notice a subtle change in the coming months. Soon the landmark cream and crimson Nick's sign might be missing. The building going up in place of the old Jiffy Treet next door to Nick's is going to block the pub's sign.
